Wednesday Afternoon Commute - Actually the chronology of chicken and egg is well established

Good afternoon

An analysis of Capital Bikeshare and bike lanes shows that "even after controlling for a variety of stuff, bike lane volume still emerges as a significant predictor of bikeshare ridership." Darren Buck theorizes that instead of adding more stations, you bikeshare some cities might get more ridership increases by adding bike lanes. Also here's a list of recommendations for bikesharing systems from the FHWA.

Arlington has created a detailed list of their preliminary 2013 CaBi Station locations. They're still taking comments. "Right now, it’s unclear when the dozens of new Bikeshare docking stations will be installed. Once the list of proposed stations is finalized, there’s a permitting process, and the County Board has to give approval. After that, the stations can typically be installed at a rate of three per day, and only take about two hours to get up and running."

The Silver Spring Transit Center - which includes a section of the Met Branch Trail and a lot of bike parking - is still delayed, and they have no delivery date for it.

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No i don't. I theorize that adding more bikelanes around stations increases ridership all else held even. I don't have any reasonable basis to theorize how much adding a station would add to ridership of the system.

My bad darren. I misinterpreted this line "I cannot help but wonder if the substantial investment needed for bikeshare might have more effective ridership returns if used on some more basic bike infrastructure for Dayton."

So many opportunities have been missed in Silver Spring for bike lanes - there are hardly any in the Silver Spring CBD even though the Master Plan has designated many streets in the CBD, i.e. Spring Street, Cedar, Bonifant, Cameron, as bike routes.

I hope that the push to bring Bikeshare to Silver Spring will force the issue of the missing infrastructure.

Wayne: I hope we see more bike lanes in the Silver Spring area. There is the demand, and there is currently space.

OTOH, a lot of SS is a junction of several major roads. Also, the development in SS is somewhat complicated because of the great legacy of "ethnic" stores and the more downscale mall mixed with the more chi-chi new development.